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what utter nonsense. sad that people have to force themselves to a limited format just to quell their own inability to sit and concentrate on one thing for an hour.

  On 3/17/2013 at 7:03 PM, david said:

3:33, Seth Green cameo

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What a faggot, where are the termites going to live now ? Not to mention everything else that lives on and in standing deadwood.

  On 3/19/2013 at 2:54 AM, chaosmachine said:

  On 3/19/2013 at 2:59 AM, zaphod said:

what utter nonsense. sad that people have to force themselves to a limited format just to quell their own inability to sit and concentrate on one thing for an hour.

A lot of backlash seems oriented toward the superficial fans of cassette tapes. It's not a magical format and people are mistaken to think it's inherently better sounding than mp3 - a badly recorded tape will sound far worse, but at the same time a well-dubbed cassette even playing through a mediocre deck can be as sonically rich as a well-pressed vinyl record.

I've become a cassette tape collector in the last couple years, but I take all aspects of the "appealing" nature of cassette tapes with a grain of salt. I discover a lot of novelty cassettes and foreign pop tapes at thrift stores. I like listening to the bandcamp and soundcloud accounts of tape labels and then buying the albums I really like. Recording and sampling onto and off of cassettes is a lot fun for me as well.

And personally, I grew up at the tale end of cassettes as a dominant format, mostly listening to CDs as a teen and mp3s in college. Now most kids don't even spend time downloading or ripping CDs - it's all streaming youtube videos and skipping through playlists on spotify and grooveshark. If it takes the novelty of a tape to push younger listeners back to appreciating full-length albums and long tracks, then I'm all for the fad.

  On 3/19/2013 at 2:54 AM, chaosmachine said:

  On 3/19/2013 at 2:59 AM, zaphod said:

what utter nonsense. sad that people have to force themselves to a limited format just to quell their own inability to sit and concentrate on one thing for an hour.

A lot of backlash seems oriented toward the superficial fans of cassette tapes. It's not a magical format and people are mistaken to think it's inherently better sounding than mp3 - a badly recorded tape will sound far worse, but at the same time a well-dubbed cassette even playing through a mediocre deck can be as sonically rich as a well-pressed vinyl record.

I've become a cassette tape collector in the last couple years, but I take all aspects of the "appealing" nature of cassette tapes with a grain of salt. I discover a lot of novelty cassettes and foreign pop tapes at thrift stores. I like listening to the bandcamp and soundcloud accounts of tape labels and then buying the albums I really like. Recording and sampling onto and off of cassettes is a lot fun for me as well.

And personally, I grew up at the tale end of cassettes as a dominant format, mostly listening to CDs as a teen and mp3s in college. Now most kids don't even spend time downloading or ripping CDs - it's all streaming youtube videos and skipping through playlists on spotify and grooveshark. If it takes the novelty of a tape to push younger listeners back to appreciating full-length albums and long tracks, then I'm all for the fad.

  On 3/18/2013 at 4:02 PM, Rambo said:

Oh my word, the pedo creep at :40 stroking his hair in wide-eyed anticipation. flol

yes bart

Cross-post from 'Obscure' Rephlex thread

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  On 3/19/2013 at 8:52 PM, funkaholic said:

well that was mean spirited

  On 3/18/2013 at 3:15 PM, joshuatx said:

man i want one of those so bad

  On 3/20/2013 at 1:12 AM, Alcofribas said:

 

  On 3/18/2013 at 3:15 PM, joshuatx said:

man i want one of those so bad

me too at some point way down the line, though all the wow and flutter is from it using old and degraded tape - from what I've read and then actually heard IRL the El Capistan guitar pedal is better for the tape warble effect (and it's a hell of delay emulator beyond that). a properly running re-201 or re-301 won't go into "instant BoC" mode lol, it's a lot cheaper to buy old cassettes, mangle the tape, and record off of that

  On 3/20/2013 at 12:03 AM, The Overlook said:

Kill these people.

  On 3/20/2013 at 2:28 AM, joshuatx said:

 

  On 3/20/2013 at 1:12 AM, Alcofribas said:

 

  On 3/18/2013 at 3:15 PM, joshuatx said:

 

 

man i want one of those so bad

me too at some point way down the line, though all the wow and flutter is from it using old and degraded tape - from what I've read and then actually heard IRL the El Capistan guitar pedal is better for the tape warble effect (and it's a hell of delay emulator beyond that). a properly running re-201 or re-301 won't go into "instant BoC" mode lol, it's a lot cheaper to buy old cassettes, mangle the tape, and record off of that

word. the roland tape delays are absurdy overpriced but fuck me are they beautiful.

My first noise performance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AhB--bUTNs&list=UUEX-6l9RNkbY_JHFqprPmTg&index=251

  On 3/20/2013 at 12:21 AM, zaphod said:

 

  On 3/19/2013 at 8:52 PM, funkaholic said:

 

well that was mean spirited

lol, if you look at his twitter and some of his other sketches i get the feeling he is a big gamer